Tourism in Washington, DC / America

Is the capital of the United States of America, symbolizes the letters to the DC District of Columbia or Colombia sector, a sector federal (federal) under the authority of the federal government directly, and not any state of the states. Has been named Washington named after George Washington, military leader of the American Revolution and first president of the United States.

 
It is common to refer to the city by DC, the District or just "Washington." Historically, it was called the Federal City or Washington City. So as to avoid confusion with the state of Washington that fall away from her just north of the western United States on the Pacific coast, while the capital is located in Washington, east on the border between the states of Maryland and Virginia

Comes the White House and the Capitol at the head of the most important features of the province, and packed the capital monuments many tourist such as building, printing securities instrument currency, and memorials to presidents Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, and there are a lot of libraries such as the Library of Congress, and management of national documents and archives, which contain the original Declaration of Independence.

  There are several famous museums such as the Smithsonian museums Smith Smithsonian, which includes the Museum of Natural History, the Museum of American History, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of postage stamps. And other attractions in the city of Washington, Cathedral of St. Matthew, and Ford's Theatre, and the old Post Office, Capitol Hill neighborhood, and Volger Shakespeare Library, which includes the largest collection of books by English novelist and poet William Shakespeare